Neither the time nor the place the new nineteenth-century American studies
Title
Neither the time nor the place [electronic resource] : the new nineteenth-century American studies / edited by Christopher Castiglia and Susan Gillman.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
"In Neither the Time nor the Place seventeen critics consider how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades, and make explicit how time and place are best considered in tandem, interrogating each other. Taken together, the essays in this volume challenge depictions of place and time as bounded and linear, fixed and teleological, or mere ideological constructions. They address both familiar and unexpected objects, practices, and texts, including a born-digital Melville, documents from the construction of the Panama Canal, the hollow earth, the desiring body, textual editing, marble statuary, the sound of frogs, spirit photography, and twentieth-century Civil War fiction. The essays draw on an equally wide variety of critical methodologies, integrating affect studies, queer theory, book history, information studies, sound studies, environmental humanities, new media studies, and genre theory, to explore the unexpected dimensions that emerge when time and place are taken as a unit. The essays are organized around considerations of citizenship, environment, historiography, media, and bodies-five political, cultural, and/or methodological foci for some of the most provocative new work being done in American literary studies"--
Chapter 1. Roma redux : the analogical nineteenth century / Mark Storey -- Chapter 2. African Americans and the Panama Canal Zone as a third space / Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo -- Chapter 3. "Something awful in the voice of the multitude" : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred on power and social struggle / Dana D. Nelson -- Chapter 4. Uneven improvement : swamplands and the matter of slavery in Stowe, Northup, and Thoreau / Matthew E. Suazo -- Chapter 5. Vanishing sounds : Thoreau and the sixth extinction / Wai Chee Dimock -- Chapter 6. Beyond place : the speculative dimension of nineteenth-century American literature / Edward Sugden -- Chapter 7. Exorbitant optics and lunatic pleasures / Timothy Marr -- Chapter 8. The other South : time, space, and counterfactual histories of the Civil War / Matthew Pratt Guterl -- Chapter 9. Apocalypse then : Southern speculative fiction, slavery, and Civil War, 1836-1860 / Coleman Hutchison -- Chapter 10. Editing Melville's Pierre : text, nation, time / Robert S. Levine -- Chapter 11. American literary studies @ scale / Caroline Levander -- Chapter 12. Place out of time : LatinX studies, migrant fictions, and Israel Potter / Rodrigo Lazo -- Chapter 13. Shame and the emotional life of the realist novel / Stephanie Foote -- Chapter 14. Ghosts of another time : spiritualism, photography, enchantment / Dana Luciano -- Chapter 15. Not to mention (the marmorean unconscious) / Christopher Looby.
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Title
Neither the time nor the place [electronic resource] : the new nineteenth-century American studies / edited by Christopher Castiglia and Susan Gillman.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]